Article
PCR detection of cytokines in normal human and pagetic osteoblast-like cells.
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research - 1 Oct 1993
Birch M A, Ginty A F, Walsh C A, Fraser W D, Gallagher J A, Bilbe G
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the expression of cytokine transcripts in osteoblast-like cells derived from explants of pagetic and normal bone. A reverse transcription-linked PCR was used that allowed the simultaneous analysis of a range of cytokines. Normal osteoblast-like cells were found to contain the transcripts for IL-1 beta, IL-6, and TGF-beta 1. For the first time we detected in bone cells the two other mammalian...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytokines
- DNA, Complementary
- Humans
- Interleukins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Osteitis Deformans
- Osteoblasts
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
